Inducing Polynomial Equations for Regression

Abstract

Regression methods aim at inducing models of numeric data. While most state-of-the-art machine learning methods for regression focus on inducing piecewise regression models (regression and model trees), we investigate the predictive performance of regression models based on polynomial equations. We present Ciper , an efficient method for inducing polynomial equations and empirically evaluate its predictive performance on standard regression tasks. The evaluation shows that polynomials compare favorably to linear and piecewise regression models, induced by standard regression methods, in terms of degree of fit and complexity. The bias-variance decomposition of predictive error shows that Ciper has lower variance than methods for inducing regression trees.

Cite

Text

Todorovski et al. "Inducing Polynomial Equations for Regression." European Conference on Machine Learning, 2004. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_41

Markdown

[Todorovski et al. "Inducing Polynomial Equations for Regression." European Conference on Machine Learning, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2004/todorovski2004ecml-inducing/) doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_41

BibTeX

@inproceedings{todorovski2004ecml-inducing,
  title     = {{Inducing Polynomial Equations for Regression}},
  author    = {Todorovski, Ljupco and Ljubic, Peter and Dzeroski, Saso},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {2004},
  pages     = {441-452},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-540-30115-8_41},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2004/todorovski2004ecml-inducing/}
}